Means for certifying checks or other instruments.



C.. L. PFLIDERER.

MEANS POR GERTIJYING CHECKS OH OTHER INSTRUMENTS. APPLICATXON NLED JUNE 7,1911.

)31,1 12;@54@ Patented 00h16, 19M.

PH :LAPELPWA STAR 51mm- NAT/@NAL BANK to We fzirra vvvm @WLM W01/ 6/ NTED STATES PATENT OFFI@ CHARLES L. PFLEIDER'ER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR CERTIFYING CHECKS 'OR OTHER NVSTRUll/ENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

nte-d Oct. 6, Mll..

Application filed June 7, 19.11. Serial No. slf.

' 'infr is a specilication.

lly invention relates toimprovements in means for certifying checks or other instruments, the object oi the invention being to provide an improved method ol banking, wl'ierelvy upon deposit of an amount in the bank. the bank issues to the depositor stamps to the falue of the amount deposited, and said depositor when drawing a cheek, places on the back of the cheek stamps to the value of the face oi' the cheek.

A further object is to provide improved stamps which are ot various t'aee value, issued in accordance with deposits made in the bank, and which bear the depositors number, whereby the stamps on the hack of the check must not only be equal to, or in excess of, the tace value oi the cheek, but must each of them bear the depositors number.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and an* rangements ot parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed/ out in the claim.

ln the accompanying d rawings--F igure l, is a face view of a Check, and Fig. 2, is a View of the baal( ot the same check.

The face of the cheek as .shown in Fig. i,

may be printed as any ordinary cheek is printed, but the back ot the check contains at one end two lines l and 52', the Former under the caption Amount ot cheek and the latter under the caption i Amount of plus stamps. Below these lines appear the Word' Indorsers Alon:r the back ot the check, stamps 3 are pasti i, and the payee and other indorsevs should indorse the cheek on the'baek, as i imstomary, below the word Indorsers75 ',lhe stamps 3 are adapted to be issued by the bank, and when the depositor deposits a. certain amount et money in the bank, the bank issues to him stamps to the Value ofthe money deposited. Each of these ystamps contains printed mat# ter indicating the bank issuing the staino, the value ot' the stamp, and the depositors number.

' The particular cheek illustrated is drawn for three dollars and thirty-six cents, and the stamps 3 on the baelr of the cheek show three dollars and thirty-six cents, which indientes to the payee' that the drawer of theA cheek has this amount on deposit, and is in' effect a certified check. Should, for exam ple, the depositorrnot be able to maire the exact amount by adding together the stamps, he places stamps on the back of the check which are of an accumulated 'value in eircess of the face value of the cheek. He then, on the back of the cheek, beside the words Amount of plus stamps inserts numerals indicating the amount the como hined stamps equal in value in excess of the face value of the check. The boolckeeper in the bank therefore notes the fact, 'and issues to him sta-mp value to balance the account. ,f

One essential feature ot' this oase is the fact that each stam'p contains the depositors number. so that he cannot obtain other depositors stamps, but vmust have his own. 'lhe check therefore not only serves to oertity to. the payee that the amount is in the bank, but it is also a safeguard to the drawer, to prevent him from overdrawing his account. n ,l

Various slight changes might be made in the general form "and arrangement ot' parts described Without departing from my invention. and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly Jfall within the spirit and scope oli the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent is:

A check, and stamps issued hy the bant:

which the @heck is drawn as cerca'fes of deposit in said bank, said stamps pasted 011 the back of the check and all. of the S'amps of a depostor healing the same number, and the several stumps of an accumulute value equal 'o the face vnlue'o the check, substantially as descrbd.

1n testimony whereof have signed my nume to this specification n the presence of .two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES L. PFLEDEREB.. Witnesses CHARLES E. Poms, R. H. KRENKEL. 

